Samoniny

Samoniny
	Samoniny
Basic data
State :	Poland
Voivodeship :	Warmia-Masuria
Powiat :	Gołdap
Gmina :	Gołdap
Geographic location :	54 ° 13 '  N , 22 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '46 "  N , 22 ° 10' 18"  E
Residents :
Telephone code :	(+48) 87
License plate :	NGO
Economy and Transport
Street :	Mażucie ↔ Gołdap
Next international airport :	Danzig
	Kaliningrad

Samoniny (German Samonienen , 1938-1945 Klarfließ ) is a small place in the northeast of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Gołdap ( city ​​and rural community Goldap ) in the powiat Gołdapski ( Goldap district ).

Geographical location

Samoniny is located one kilometer south of the Polish-Russian state border northwest of the district town of Gołdap ( Goldap ) on an insignificant secondary road that leads from Gołdap to the border area near Mażucie ( Masutschen , 1938–1945 Oberhofen ) and before 1945 to Wikischken (1938–1946 Wiecken , today in Russian: Bagrationowo) and Darkehmen (1938–1946 Angerapp , today in Russian: Orsjorsk). Before 1945, the railway line from Insterburg (now Russian: Tschernjachowsk) to Lyck (now Polish: Ełk) passed northeast of what was then Samonienen .

Place name

The German name Samonienen is derived from Samanynai or Samynynas and means something like "moss soil", which perhaps indicates the moor in the area. A manor village of the same name was twenty kilometers further north near Tollmingkehmen (1938–1946 Tollmingen , Russian: Tschistyje Prudy), which was renamed the Reiterhof in 1938 and is now called Dokutschajewo .

history

The small village of Samnonienen near Goldap was officially named for the first time in 1592. At that time it only had 200 hectares. The few local residents will not have survived the great plague from 1708 to 1710 , because it was not until 1750 that there was sparse repopulation: only two farmers were given land. In 1785 there were already five fireplaces in the village, and in 1895 there were eleven houses with a total of 108 inhabitants.

On March 18, 1874 Samonienen belonged to the new communities that formed the Ballupönen district (1938-1945 Ballenau , now Polish: Bałupiany), which was later renamed the Grilskehmen district and on July 25, 1939 in the Grilsen district (Polish: Grygieliszki) .

In 1910 the municipality of Samonienen had 76 inhabitants, in 1933 there were 76 and in 1939 it was 62.

On June 3, 1938 Samonienen received with official confirmation of 16 July 1938, the renaming in "clear flow", but remained until 1945 the district Goldap in Administrative district Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia belong.

At the end of the Second World War , 19 out of 62 inhabitants were killed. The place came to Poland and was named Samoniny. Today he is part of Gmina Gołdap in the powiat Gołdapski in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (1975-1998 Suwałki Voivodeship ).

church

The before 1945 the majority Protestant population of Samonienen / Clear flow was in the parish Goldap in the same church district in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches the parish. The Catholic residents also had a connection to their parish in Goldap.

Footnotes

1. ^ Samonienen / Klarfließ at Ostpreußen.net
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Grilsen district
3. ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Goldap district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).